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1 online resource (xii, 1117 pages) |
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Documents of Anglophone Christianity
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Documents of Anglophone Christianity.
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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"Beginning with a brief look at what the European colonists were able to make of indigenous beliefs and practices, and ending in 1730--the year before the first published work of the Rev. Jonathan Edwards-- Religion and Its Reformation in America seeks to highlight the distinguishing features of Christianity in the first century of its life in the colonies that would become the United States.The transplanted Church of England in Virginia, the Catholicism of Maryland, and, later on, the Quaker experience of Pennsylvania are well represented, but the heaviest emphasis falls on the "Puritans" of Massachusetts and Connecticut. Astonishingly, the leaders of a migrant population produced a religious literature that, in both quantity and intellectual acumen, is unmatched in any other colonial venue on record. Drawing on an array of texts written on the Continent, and in some cases on a personal experience of Reformed churches abroad, these so-called Puritans sought a New Church in a providentially provided New England.The general outlines of their story--end-time excitement, the establishment of a radical new ecclesiology (which came to be known as Congregationalism), second- and third-generation confusion and compromise which yet refused to concede that their radicalism had been a mistake--are well known to historians who specialize in this period. Presented here, however, for scholar and student alike, is something approaching a full literary record--not just names and dates and creeds and platforms, but a rich human experience of motive, energy, action, and affect. Religion to be sure, with reform its driving force--but also literature in its best sense, eager to upend prevailing assumptions." -- publisher's description. |
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Before America -- Before the Pilgrims -- A new church in a New England -- A trial of separation -- A greater migration -- Congregationalist orthodoxy -- After Zion, what? -- Other regions, other voices. Virginia -- Maryland -- Pennsylvania and New Jersey -- New Amsterdam -- End of an era -- Awakening versus Englightenment. |
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I. BEFORE AMERICA: from: General History of Virginia (1624) / John Smith -- from: Good News from New England (1624) ; from: The Glorious Progress of the Gospel Amongst the Indians (1649) / Edward Winslow -- from: A Key into the Language of America (1643) / Roger Williams -- from: Indian Dialogues (1671) / John Eliot. |
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II. BEFORE THE PILGRIMS: from: The Lawes Divine, Morall and Martiall (1612) / Thomas Gates & William Strachey -- from: Description of New England (1616) ; from: General History of Virginia (1624) / John Smith. |
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III. A NEW CHURCH IN A NEW ENGLAND. A. OLD WORLD ORIGINS: from: Institutes of the Christian Religion (1536) / John Calvin -- from: A Golden Chain (1591) ; from: The Art of Prophesying (1606 (1592)) / William Perkins -- from: Examination of Perkins' Treatise on Predestination (1602) [online] ; from: The Synod of Dort (1619) / Jacobus (James) Arminius -- from: The Marrow of Theology (1623) / William Ames -- from: The Bruised Reed and the Smoking Flax (1631) / Richard Sibbes [online] -- from: The Honey-Combe of Free Justification (1642) / John Eaton [online]. -- B. A TRIAL OF SEPARATISM: from: A Treatise of Reformation without Tarrying for Any (1582) / Robert Browne -- "Dispute with the Arminians" (from Wm Bradford) (ca. 1619) [online] ; Farewell Sermon (from Wm Bradford) (1620) ; from: "Certain Useful Advertisements" (1620) ; from: A Defense of the Doctrine Propounded by the Synod of Dort (1624) ; from: A Just and Necessary Apologie (1625) / John Robinson -- from: New England's Plantation (1630) / Francis Higginson -- from: "Reasons and Considerations Touching the Lawfulness of Removal ..." (1622) / Robert Cushman -- from: Mourt's Relation (1622) -- from: Good News from New England (1624) / Edward Winslow -- from: Of Plymouth Plantation (1857 (1608-1648)) / William Bradford -- from: The New English Canaan (1637) / Thomas Morton -- The Salem Covenants (1629, 1636) -- Letter to the Town of Norwich (1636) / Michael Metcalfe [online]. -- C. A GREATER MIGRATION: The Charlestown-Boston Covenant (1632) -- from: "Christian Experience" (1636) ; "Reasons for Forsaking England"/"Farewell" (1629) ; from: "The Humble Request" (1630) [online] ; from: "A Model of Christian Charity" (1630) ; from: Journal History of New England (1630-1649) ; from: A Short Story of ... the Antinomians (1644) / John Winthrop -- from: The Memoir of Captain Roger Clapp (1731 (1640)) / Roger Clapp -- "Letter to His Former Parishioners" (1632) / Thomas Weld -- from: Letter to John Winthrop (1636) ; from: The Bloody Tenet of Persecution (1644) ; from: The Bloody Tenet Yet More Bloody (1652) / Roger Williams -- from: The Poor Doubting Christian (1629) ; from: The Application of Redemption (1656 (1636-1638)) ; from: The Soul's Ingrafting (1637) / Thomas Hooker -- from: Autobiography (and Journal) (1832 (1639)) ; from: Lay Narratives (1637-1648) ; from: The Sound Believer (1652 (1634-1635)) ; from: Parable of the Ten Virgins (1660 (1636-1638)) ; from: Preface to Defense of the Answer (1648) / Thomas Shepard -- from: The Gospel Covenant (1646, 1651) / Peter Bulkeley -- from: "A Brief History of the Dedham Church" (1638) / John Allin -- from: A Brief Exposition of the Whole Book of Canticles (1642 (1621-1623)) ; from: The Way of Life (1641) ; from: Christ the Fountain of Life (1651) ; from: "God's Promise to His Plantations" (1630) ; from: The New Covenant (1654 (1635-1636)) ; from: Mr. Cotton's Rejoinder (1637) ; from: The Bloody Tenet Washed (1647) ; from: The Church's Resurrection (1642) / John Cotton -- from: "A Fast-Day Sermon" (1637) ; from: Mercurius Americanus (1645) / John Wheelwright -- from: The Trials of Anne Hutchinson, Civil Trial (1637) -- from: The Trials of Anne Hutchinson, Church Trial (1638) -- from: The Simple Cobbler of Aggawam (1645) / Nathaniel Ward -- from: Abel Being Dead Yet Speaketh (1658) ; from: The Orthodox Evangelist (1654) ; from: "Sion the Outcast Healed of Her Wounds" (1661) / John Norton -- from: The Saints Anchor-Hold (1661) / John Davenport -- from: The Wonder-Working Providence of Sion's Savior (1654) / Edward Johnson -- from: the Bay Psalm Book [officially, The Whole Book of Psalms, Faithfully Translated ...] (1640) -- from: "Contemplations" ; from: The Tenth Muse (1650) ; from: Several Poems Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and Learning (1678) ; "To My Dear Children" (1867) ; from: "Meditations Divine and Moral" (1867) ; "... Some Verses Upon the Burning of Our House (1666)" (1867) ; "As Weary Pilgrim, Now at Rest" (1867) / Anne Bradstreet -- from: "New England's Tears for Old England's Fears" (1640) / William Hooke. -- D. CONGREGATIONALIST ORTHODOXY: from: Letter to Salem (1636) ; from: Letter to the Lord Say and Sele (1636) ; from: Keys to the Kingdom (1644) / John Cotton -- from: Survey of the Summe ... (1645) / Thomas Hooker -- from: Simplicities Defense (1646) / Samuel Gorton -- from: The Childe Petition (1646) -- from: The Cambridge Platform (1646-1648) -- from: Responsio (1648) ; from: The Heart of New England Rent (1659) / John Norton -- from: "Ill News from New England" (1652) / John Clarke -- "To the Governor of Massachusetts Protesting the Baptists' Treatment" (1651) / Roger Williams. |
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IV. AFTER ZION, WHAT?: from: Result of the Half-Way Synod (1662) -- from: "An Apologetical Preface" (1662) / Increase Mather -- from: "Another Essay ..." (1662) / John Davenport -- from: An Answer to the Apologetical Preface (1662) / Jonathan Mitchell -- from: "A Defence of the Answer and Arguments of the Synod Met at Boston in the Year 1662 ... (1662) / Richard Mather -- from: "The Day of Doom" (1662) ; from: "God's Controversy with New England" (1662) / Michael Wigglesworth -- from: "Nehemiah on the Wall" (1667) / Jonathan Mitchell -- from: "New England's True Interest" (1668) / William Stoughton -- from: New England's Memorial (1669) / Nathaniel Morton -- from: "The Happiness of a People" (1676) ; from: General History of New England (1680) / William Hubbard [online] -- from: The Mystery of Israel's Salvation (1669) ; from: "The Day of Trouble Is Near" (1674) ; from: A Brief History of... King Philip's War (1676) [online] ; from: "A Call to the Rising Generation" (1678) ; from: The Necessity of Reformation (1679) [online] ; from: An Essay for the Recording of Illustrious Providences (1684) ; from: The Order of the Gospel (1700) / Increase Mather -- from: "New England Pleaded With" (1673) ; [online] from: "The Sovereign Efficacy of Divine Providence" (1677) / Urian Oakes -- from: "New England's Errand into the Wilderness" (1670) / Samuel Danforth -- from: "Eye-Salve" (1672) / Thomas Shepard, Jr. -- from: Narrative of Her Captivity and Redemption (1682) / Mary White Rowlandson -- from: The Redeemed Captive (1707) / John Williams -- from: "The Only Sure Way to Prevent Threatened Calamity..." (1682) ; from: "The Character of a Good Ruler" (1694) [online] ; from: The Peril of the Times Displayed (1700) [online] ; from: A Complete Body of Divinity (1726 (1687-1707)) / Samuel Willard -- "Upon the Sweeping Flood" (1683) ; "Upon a Wasp Chilled" [online] ; "Huswifery" [online] ; "The Ebb and Flow" ; "Upon Wedlock and the Death of Children" ; from: Gods Determinations Touching His Elect (1682) ; from: Preparatory Meditations ; from: Treatise Concerning the Lord's Supper (1694) / Edward Taylor -- from: Christographia (1701-1703) / Edward Taylor II [online] -- from: Upon the Types of the Old Testament (1693) / Edward Taylor -- from: "Result" of the Reforming Synod of 1679 -- from: A Narrative of the Planting of the New England Colony (1694) / Joshua Scottow -- from: Election Sermon (1689) [online] ; from: Wonders of the Invisible World (1693) ; from: Magnalia Christi Americana (1702 (1698)) / Cotton Mather -- from: More Wonders of the Invisible World (1700) / Robert Calef -- from: Diary (1674-1729) ; from: Phaenomena Quaedam Apocalyptica (1697) ; from: "The Selling of Joseph" (1700) / Samuel Sewall -- from: The Safety of Appearing in the Righteousness of Christ (1687) / Solomon Stoddard I [online] -- from: The Doctrine of the Instituted Churches (1700) / Solomon Stoddard. |
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V. OTHER REGIONS, OTHER VOICES. A. VIRGINIA: from: Our Savior's Divine Sermon on the Mount (1722) / James Blair -- from: A Good Conversation (1707) [online] ; from: Narrative of the New and Unusual American Imprisonment of Two Presbyterian Ministers (1707) / Francis Makemie -- from: The History and Present State of Virginia (1705) / Robert Beverley -- from: The Secret Diary (1709ff.) ; from: The History of the Dividing Line (1728ff.) / William Byrd II [online]. -- B. MARYLAND: from: A Relation of Maryland (1635) ; An Act Concerning Religion (1649) / Andrew White. -- C. PENNSYLVANIA AND NEW JERSEY: from: The Concession and Agreement of the Lords Proprietors of New Caesarea, or New Jersey (1664) -- from: Some Reasons and Causes of the Late Separation (1692) / George Keith [online] -- from: Primitive Christianity in the Faith and Practice of the People Called Quakers (1696) / William Penn -- from: An Apology for the True Christian Divinity ... (1703) / Robert Barclay -- from: A Journal, or Historical Account of the ... Work of the Ministry (1709) / George Fox -- from: A Sermon Preached at the Opening of the Synod at Philadelphia (1722) / Jonathan Dickinson -- from: A Clear Demonstration (1731) / Theodore Frelinghuysen. D. NEW AMSTERDAM: from: Letter to Smoutius (1628) / Jonas Michaelius. |
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VI. END OF AN ERA: The Brattle Street Church Manifesto (1699) -- from: Gospel Order Revived (1700) ; from: Practical Discourses upon the Parable of the Ten Virgins (1707) / Benjamin Colman -- Massachusetts Proposals (1705) -- from: "A Sermon for the Reformation of Manners" (1716) [online] ; from: "Some Observations on the New Method of Receiving the Small-Pox ..." 1721) / Benjamin Colman [online] -- Saybrook Platform of Connecticut (1708) -- from: An Appeal to the Learned (1710) ; from: "The Efficacy of the Fear of Hell" (1713) [online] ; from: "The Defects of Preachers Reproved" (1723) / Solomon Stoddard [online] -- from: The Churches Quarrel Espoused (1710) [online] ; from: Vindication of the ... New England Churches (1717) / Jonathan Wise -- from: Bonifacius (1710) ; from: The Christian Philosopher (1721) ; from: Manuductio Ad Ministerium (1726) / Cotton Mather [online] -- Revisionism and Immaterialism at Yale -- from: "My Present Thoughts on Episcopacy ... (1719) ; from: Noetica (1752) / Samuel Johnson -- from: "Notes on the Mind" (1716ff.) / Jonathan Edwards -- from: "A Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity (1725) ; from: Autobiography (1771ff.) / Benjamin Franklin -- from: "The People of New England" (1730) / Thomas Prince. |
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VII. AFTERWORD: Awakening versus Englightenment. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Reformation -- United States -- Sources.
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United States -- Church history -- To 1775 -- Sources.
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Protestantism -- United States -- History -- 17th century -- Sources.
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Protestantism -- United States -- History -- 18th century -- Sources.
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Preaching -- United States -- History -- 17th century -- Sources.
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Preaching -- United States -- History -- 18th century -- Sources.
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Religious poetry, American -- 17th century.
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Religious poetry, American -- 18th century.
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Religion in literature.
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Reformation |
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United States https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq |
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To 1775 |
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Church history
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Colacurcio, Michael J., editor.
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Johnson, Allison M., 1984- editor. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjwghTXD7KbFKkyJGj6jbq
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Religion and its reformation in America, beginnings to 1730. Waco, Texas : Baylor University Press, [2020] 9781602583016 (DLC) 2020945850 (OCoLC)1158188307 |
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148131176X |
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9781481311762 (electronic bk.) |
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9781602583016 hardcover |
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1602583013 hardcover |
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